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George B. Witman

Active 1971–2022

75
Papers
19,139
Citations
70
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Citations

Citations per year for George B. Witman1972: 6 citations1973: 10 citations1974: 15 citations1975: 15 citations1976: 13 citations1977: 19 citations1978: 21 citations1979: 21 citations1980: 20 citations1981: 14 citations1982: 24 citations1983: 18 citations1984: 31 citations1985: 35 citations1986: 26 citations1987: 15 citations1988: 29 citations1989: 23 citations1990: 24 citations1991: 31 citations1992: 35 citations1993: 36 citations1994: 66 citations1995: 64 citations1996: 75 citations1997: 45 citations1998: 57 citations1999: 56 citations2000: 68 citations2001: 75 citations2002: 90 citations2003: 182 citations2004: 208 citations2005: 164 citations2006: 222 citations2007: 248 citations2008: 282 citations2009: 249 citations2010: 236 citations2011: 289 citations2012: 221 citations2013: 225 citations2014: 238 citations2015: 210 citations2016: 204 citations2017: 199 citations2018: 122 citations2019: 509 citations2020: 449 citations2021: 456 citations2022: 307 citations2023: 203 citations2024: 274 citations2025: 121 citations2026: 1 citations

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,035 citing papers, 37.8% of this breakdownGermany: 493 citing papers, 9.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 392 citing papers, 7.3% of this breakdownChina: 323 citing papers, 6% of this breakdownFrance: 311 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownJapan: 271 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownCanada: 189 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownItaly: 105 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSpain: 93 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 92 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 87 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdownAustralia: 85 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology71.5%
  • Medicine8.2%
  • Energy7.7%
  • Neuroscience3.3%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.1%
  • Physics and Astronomy2.7%
  • Other3.5%

Topics

  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases15.2%
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics9.5%
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny8.2%
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms6.7%
  • Algal biology and biofuel production4.2%
  • Renal and related cancers3.9%
  • Other52.3%

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  1. The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Authors: Sabeeha Merchant, Simon Prochnik, Olivier Vallon, Elizabeth H. Harris, Steven J. Karpowicz, George B. Witman, Astrid Terry, Asaf Salamov, Lillian K. Fritz‐Laylin, Laurence Maréchal‐Drouard, Wallace F. Marshall, Liang‐Hu Qu, David R. Nelson, Anton A. Sanderfoot, Martin H. Spalding, Vladimir V. Kapitonov, Qinghu Ren, Patrick Ferris, Erika Lindquist, Harris Shapiro, Susan Lucas, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Pierre Cardol, Heriberto Cerutti, Guillaume Chanfreau, Chun-Long Chen, Valérie Cognat, Martin T. Croft, Rachel M. Dent, Susan K. Dutcher, Emilio Muñoz Fernández, Hideya Fukuzawa, David González-Ballester, Diego González‐Halphen, Armin Hallmann, Marc Hanikenne, Michael Hippler, William Inwood, Kamel Jabbari, Ming Kalanon, Richard Kuras, Paul A. Lefebvre, Stéphane D. Lemaire, Alexey V. Lobanov, Martin Lohr, Andrea L. Manuell, Iris Meier, Laurens Mets, Maria Mittag, Telsa M. Mittelmeier, James V. Moroney, Jeffrey Moseley, Carolyn A. Napoli, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Krishna Niyogi, Sergey V. Novoselov, Ian T. Paulsen, Gregory J. Pazour, Saul Purton, Jean‐Philippe Ral, Diego Mauricio Riaño‐Pachón, Wayne R. Riekhof, Linda A. Rymarquis, Michael Schroda, David Stern, James Umen, Robert D. Willows, Nedra F. Wilson, Sara L. Zimmer, Jens Allmer, Janneke Balk, Kateřina Bišová, Chongjian Chen, Marek Eliáš, Karla Gendler, Charles R. Hauser, Mary Rose Lamb, Heidi Ledford, Joanne C. Long, Jun Minagawa, M. Dudley Page, Junmin Pan, Wirulda Pootakham, Sanja Roje, Annkatrin Rose, Eric Stahlberg, Aimee M. Terauchi, Pinfen Yang, Steven Ball, Chris Bowler, Carol L. Dieckmann, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Pamela Green, Richard E. Jorgensen, Stephen P. Mayfield, Bernd Mueller‐Roeber, Sathish Rajamani, Richard T. Sayre, Peter Brokstein and 17 more - Science 2007 cited by 2,715

  2. Intraflagellar transport

    Authors: Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2002 cited by 1,417

  3. Chlamydomonas IFT88 and Its Mouse Homologue, Polycystic Kidney Disease Gene Tg737, Are Required for Assembly of Cilia and Flagella

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Bethany L. Dickert, Yvonne Vucica, E. Scott Seeley, Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman, Douglas G. Cole - The Journal of Cell Biology 2000 cited by 1,131

  4. Proteomic analysis of a eukaryotic cilium

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Nathan S. Agrin, John Leszyk, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 2005 cited by 1,051

  5. Consensus nomenclature for dyneins and associated assembly factors

    Authors: Bryony Braschi, Heymut Omran, George B. Witman, Gregory J. Pazour, K. Kevin Pfister, Elspeth A. Bruford, Stephen M. King - The Journal of Cell Biology 2022 cited by 66

  6. TIM, a targeted insertional mutagenesis method utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Authors: Tyler Picariello, Yuqing Hou, Tomohiro Kubo, Nathan McNeill, Haruaki Yanagisawa, Toshiyuki Oda, George B. Witman - PLoS ONE 2020 cited by 90

  7. The intraflagellar transport protein, IFT88, is essential for vertebrate photoreceptor assembly and maintenance

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Sheila A. Baker, James A. Deane, Douglas G. Cole, Bethany L. Dickert, Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman, Joseph C. Besharse - The Journal of Cell Biology 2002 cited by 485

  8. A Dynein Light Chain Is Essential for the Retrograde Particle Movement of Intraflagellar Transport (IFT)

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Curtis G. Wilkerson, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 1998 cited by 424

  9. Polycystin-2 localizes to kidney cilia and the ciliary level is elevated in orpk mice with polycystic kidney disease

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Jovenal T. San Agustin, John A. Follit, Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman - Current Biology 2002 cited by 535

  10. Mutations in Hydin impair ciliary motility in mice

    Authors: Karl F. Lechtreck, Philippe Delmotte, Michael L. Robinson, Michael J. Sanderson, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 2008 cited by 278

  11. Intraflagellar transport is essential for mammalian spermiogenesis but is absent in mature sperm

    Authors: Jovenal T. San Agustin, Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman - Molecular Biology of the Cell 2015 cited by 127

  12. Radial spoke proteins ofChlamydomonasflagella

    Authors: Pinfen Yang, Dennis R. Diener, Chun Yang, Takahiro Kohno, Gregory J. Pazour, Jennifer M. Dienes, Nathan S. Agrin, Stephen M. King, Winfield S. Sale, Ritsu Kamiya, Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman - Journal of Cell Science 2006 cited by 245

  13. IFT trains in different stages of assembly queue at the ciliary base for consecutive release into the cilium

    Authors: Jenna L. Wingfield, Ilaria Mengoni, Heather E. Bomberger, Yu‐Yang Jiang, Jonathon D. Walsh, Jason Brown, Tyler Picariello, Deborah A. Cochran, Bing Zhu, Junmin Pan, Jonathan Eggenschwiler, Jacek Gaertig, George B. Witman, Peter Kner, Karl F. Lechtreck - eLife 2017 cited by 117

  14. Submicromolar levels of calcium control the balance of beating between the two flagella in demembranated models of Chlamydomonas.

    Authors: Ritsu Kamiya, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 1984 cited by 361

  15. The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii BBSome is an IFT cargo required for export of specific signaling proteins from flagella

    Authors: Karl F. Lechtreck, Eric C. Johnson, Tsuyoshi Sakai, Deborah A. Cochran, Bryan A. Ballif, A. John Rush, Gregory J. Pazour, Mitsuo Ikebe, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 2009 cited by 352

  16. Function and dynamics of PKD2 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagella

    Authors: Kaiyao Huang, Dennis R. Diener, Aaron Philip Mitchell, Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman, Joel L. Rosenbaum - The Journal of Cell Biology 2007 cited by 194

  17. CHLAMYDOMONAS FLAGELLA

    Authors: George B. Witman, Kathryn E. Carlson, J A Berliner, Joel L. Rosenbaum - The Journal of Cell Biology 1972 cited by 515

  18. The DHC1b (DHC2) Isoform of Cytoplasmic Dynein Is Required for Flagellar Assembly

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, Bethany L. Dickert, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 1999 cited by 475

  19. The vertebrate primary cilium is a sensory organelle

    Authors: Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman - Current Opinion in Cell Biology 2003 cited by 473

  20. Superresolution Pattern Recognition Reveals the Architectural Map of the Ciliary Transition Zone

    Authors: T. Tony Yang, Jimmy Su, Won‐Jing Wang, Branch Craige, George B. Witman, Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, Jung‐Chi Liao - Scientific Reports 2015 cited by 159

  21. The role of retrograde intraflagellar transport in flagellar assembly, maintenance, and function

    Authors: Benjamin D. Engel, Hiroaki Ishikawa, Kimberly A. Wemmer, Stefan Geimer, Ken‐ichi Wakabayashi, Masafumi Hirono, Branch Craige, Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman, Ritsu Kamiya, Wallace F. Marshall - The Journal of Cell Biology 2012 cited by 113

  22. A global analysis of IFT-A function reveals specialization for transport of membrane-associated proteins into cilia

    Authors: Tyler Picariello, Jason Brown, Yuqing Hou, Gregory Swank, Deborah A. Cochran, Oliver D. King, Karl F. Lechtreck, Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman - Journal of Cell Science 2019 cited by 80

  23. Diffusion rather than intraflagellar transport likely provides most of the tubulin required for axonemal assembly in Chlamydomonas

    Authors: Julie C. Van De Weghe, J. Aaron Harris, Tomohiro Kubo, George B. Witman, Karl F. Lechtreck - Journal of Cell Science 2020 cited by 54

  24. CEP290 tethers flagellar transition zone microtubules to the membrane and regulates flagellar protein content

    Authors: Branch Craige, Che-Chia Tsao, Dennis R. Diener, Yuqing Hou, Karl F. Lechtreck, Joel L. Rosenbaum, George B. Witman - The Journal of Cell Biology 2010 cited by 388